500 preorders! We’re 2/3 of the way there!

THANK YOU!

Getting this book fully for-real published with in-store promotions and everything would be a killer dream come true for me. And I thank each and every one of you for having faith in this book!

I hope you’re enjoying the sample chapters. If you haven’t checked them out please do. They’re non-spoilery to the main events of the book but give you key insights to the story.

I can’t wait for all of you to read the whole thing too. Pilot X was created by me in the 1990s for a parody news article on subbrilliant.com. He has grown quite a bit since then when he was a crashed pilot of a mystery aircraft in Colorado. He is no longer a crashed pilot of a mystery aircraft in Colorado.

He is so much more. And he’s soon to be real character in a real published novel thanks to you.

SO WHAT NOW?

We need 250 more preorders over the next 45 days to make this happen.

That means, if I have done my math correctly, that each of you needs to convince just half a person to preorder Pilot X. Are you willing to do that?

Come on, its just half a person? They won’t even see you coming! If you approach fro the half without eyes.

Anyway PLEASE spread the word and PLEASE know you’ve made my day every time I get that email saying you pre-ordered.

You’re the best.

Cheers,

Tom

It’s crunch time, people. We are less than two weeks out from the end of the Geek & Sundry hard science fiction competition. Yes, we are in the lead. But there are no guarantees. Though my wife insists I stop hustling and giving all of my free time to this publishing contest before my daughters forget their daddy’s name, I can’t sleep properly until I see my dream of publishing this book come true. It’s not crunch time, it’s Captain Crunch time.

Saleem Dar, a fan of the book has provided this killer puppet rap for The Punch Escrow:

Share it with your friends, tell them if they pre-order the book I’ll buy them lunch. Yes: It’s THE LUNCH ESCROW. What a great idea for a promo Tal’s sleep deprived 12:34am mind! Let’s run with that. On top of all of our other giveaways and raffles, I am announcing the ultimate giant raffle: One lucky (for some definition of that word) winner will be taken out to lunch by me. I might come to you or bring you to me. We will *not* be teleporting. It will be an epic lunch. We will not eat bugs, which are the primary protein source for people in in the 25th century (turns out soylent green was just beetles). It will be awesome and delicious, and anyone who’s pre-ordered a book gets an entry. You get a second entry when someone you refer pre-orders a book.

Oh, and the winner of last week’s shirt and a mug raffle is... Erik Ebert! Erik, I’ll be in touch at the end of the campaign to sort out shipping logistics. There’s another raffle this week, keep those pre-orders and referrals coming!

Last thing:

I haven’t really been using this to promote other books, but there’s one I think  you guys should really check out. It’s called Lucky by RH Webster, and from what I’ve read so far it feels like this generation’s The Last Starfighter. I like it not only because of that, but because the protagonist is a girl, and it’s seeming like the kind of story I’d really want my daughters to get into. 

Readers,